Really we want this for CKAN Hosted & for creating demos.

Currently we're using ​http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ - but by finding the area & taking screenshots. Would be better to interate with the app so that: a) this happens automatically and b) correct attribution will be visible on maps

With the text logo I'd like the tag line to be under the site name so some css like

float:left;clear:left;font-size:13px;line-height:0.1;

Also the site name can be larger if no tagline

commit daac54dbd856 I've added a new global g.header_css that sets the hgroup class to

'header-image' 'header-text-logo' 'header-text-logo-tagline'

I think maybe we should also have 'header-image-css' for the equivalent of the class="logo" in the link to allow/stop the image replacement

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/ language dropdown expands downwards it should open upwards

select2 can do this see ​http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/#documentation can you see if we can get this in ckan demo

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/resource-markdown/resource_edit/ba1b094d-697c-47c4-a72a-6c2557da5409

should have back to resource as a minimum

this want to

a) be a link on the left of the form like deletes

b) needs a confirm like delete

c) wants to work with the autoform

be good to do this in phase 3

This is what we need the JSON to look like. Taken from the Jed documentation (​http://slexaxton.github.com/Jed/).

{

      // The empty string key is used as the configuration
      // block for each domain
      "" : {
        // Domain name
        "domain" : "the_domain",

        // Language code
        "lang" : "en",

        // Plural form function for language
        "plural_forms" : "nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);"
      },

      // Other keys in a domain contain arrays as values
      // that map to the translations for that key.
      // Gettext suggests that you use english as your keys
      // in case the key isn't found, and it can just pass
      // the value directly through.
      // Note: by convention, the 0-index location of the translations
      // is never accessed. It's just a thing, I guess.
      "a key" : [ null, "the translation", "the plural translations", ... ],

      // The plural form string is converted into a function
      // and the value that's passed into the gettext call
      // is passed into the plural form function. It's result
      // (plus 1) is the index that the translation comes from.

      // We're using sprintf interpolation on our keys so we can
      // then sub in the _actual_ values into the result.
      "%d key" : [ null, "%d key", "%d keys" ],

      // Contexts are keys that are just prefixed with a context string
      // with a unicode \u0004 as the delimiter.
      // You can use it for anything. Usually it's just for being content aware
      // in some way (e.g. male vs. female, product vs. category)
      "context\u0004%d key": [ null, "context %d key", "context %d keys" ]
    }

This looks like an appropriate python library to do the formatting. ​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pojson/ but I'll leave to your discretion.

Finally an API endpoint that returns the appropriate request would save us making requests to the i18n directory.

/api/i18n/{locale}

For example if the current url is ​http://localhost:5000/pl/dataset then the client would request:

http://localhost:5000/api/i18n/pl

This should return the Content-Type: application/json and a 200 with an appropriate JSON body (this can be the language requested or an appropriate fallback). I think that if the fallback is the default language (in most cases English) then we just return a 204 No Content to save data.

on resource pages (e.g. ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/afghanistan-election-data/resource/f6331f99-51f6-44d9-95b9-b20f3b74f360), same as old ckan for continuity and to highlight!

e.g. currently no way to read full description for the 'data explorer examples' group here:http://s031.okserver.org:2375/group/data-explorer

Can we add a 'read more' link that expands and contracts the sidebar box or similar?

If you make your browser window short - say half screen height on a page with delete eg ​http://localhost:5000/dataset/edit/1-kmwaterfractionfromnationaltopographicdatabasemapscanada

the dialog box is partially off the screen - it should try to stay on screen

Edit a dataset and add an author, dataset read page still says 'author not given'. If you fill out both the author and author email fields then it works.

Over-enthusiastic removal of some model items

this breaks qa extension

Problem: When creating a related item it mentions that you can use markdown in the description, however markdown doesn't render in apps page nor in related items page. Expected: Make shortened descriptions (on apps page & related items page) render markdown

Problem: On /apps page if you start in one language, filter the data, and then change languages it loses the correct format for the HTTP Get Parameters (and therefore loses the filters). Example, start in English language, change filter settings to to Application and Newest, change language to German. Expected: Retain correct format for HTTP Get Parameters so that the filter settings are retained. Solution will involve not turning "=" into "%3D" in the URL, i.e. turn off URL encoding.

Problem: Server Error (HTTP Code 500) when trying to see information related to an RSS feed... example: ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/en/dataset/testerisation/resource/974df29e-77bb-4b5e-982c-cb7a295c1923 Expected: A page that looks a bit more like this: ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/epims-lod2/resource/97531bd8-e75c-4efa-bfa2-bb51d0ba90d0

like we have on the form here

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/harvest/new

you said it partly exists so maybe I just need some training

Create a group, create some datasets and add them to the group, then view the group's page with a sort-order specified in the URL, e.g. /group/foo?q=&sort=title_string+asc, no datasets are displayed even though there are datasets in the group that match the search query. Remove the sort order from the URL and the datasets will appear.

On the add dataset form, slug generation fails with JS error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'incompleteFormWarning'    basic-form.js:5

On the organization read page there is only an 'Add Dataset' button, not a drop-down with add new dataset or add existing dataset as on the default group page.

On the organization edit page you do have the drop-down, but if you click add existing dataset nothing happens except it appends #datasets to the URL

On harvest page: ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/harvest the checkbox appears above the text and not clear what it refers to/

Beter to relocate to the left (as on publicdata.eu) see screenshots attached.

should be left alighned, not right aligned. Otherwise tag line disappears left off the page.

See: header here: ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/ckan-admin/config

Tried to refresh the datagm harvest source to get error message:

"An error occurred: [There already is an unrun job for this source]"

This is unclear and not sure why it created an error. We should have something informative such as "A harvest has already been scheduled for this source"

Do we have a date/time for when this has been scheduled that we can display?

1. go to ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/user/okfn
2. Click on activity stream
3. Click on 'Deletion test' related item that's linked to in entries 1 & 2
4. Server error

can we get the link going to an explanation of the 5 star system on page ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/qa/dataset/five_stars to open in new tab? it's leaving demo all together so better to open in new tab than navigate away

URL: ​http://thedatahub.org/el/tag/jutatt%C3%A1sok Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in call << traceback_supplement = Supplement, self, environ

sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker?(start_response) app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker) return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)

except:

app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)

Module beaker.middleware:73 in call << self.cache_manager)

environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager return self.app(environ, start_response)

return self.app(environ, start_response)

Module beaker.middleware:155 in call << headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))

return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)

return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)

def _get_session(self):

return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)

Module routes.middleware:131 in call << r'\1', oldpath)

response = self.app(environ, start_response)

# Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already

response = self.app(environ, start_response)

Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in call <<

controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response) response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)

if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,

response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)

Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch << if log_debug:

log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")

return controller(environ, start_response)

def load_test_env(self, environ):

return controller(environ, start_response)

Module ckan.lib.base:239 in call << try:

res = WSGIController.call(self, environ, start_response)

finally:

model.Session.remove()

res = WSGIController.call(self, environ, start_response)

Module pylons.controllers.core:221 in call << return response(environ, self.start_response)

response = self._dispatch_call() if not start_response_called:

self.start_response = start_response

response = self._dispatch_call()

Module pylons.controllers.core:172 in _dispatch_call << req.environpylons.action_method? = func

response = self._inspect_call(func)

else:

if log_debug:

response = self._inspect_call(func)

Module pylons.controllers.core:107 in _inspect_call << func.name, args)

try:

result = self._perform_call(func, args)

except HTTPException, httpe:

if log_debug:

result = self._perform_call(func, args)

Module pylons.controllers.core:60 in _perform_call << """Hide the traceback for everything above this method"""

traceback_hide = 'before_and_this' return func(args)

def _inspect_call(self, func):

return func(args)

Module ckan.controllers.template:30 in view << """

try:

return render(url)

except TemplateNotFound?:

if url.endswith('.html'):

return render(url)

Module ckan.lib.base:153 in render << try:

return cached_template(template_name, render_template,

loader_class=loader_class)

except ckan.exceptions.CkanUrlException?, e:

raise

loader_class=loader_class)

Module pylons.templating:249 in cached_template << return content

else:

return render_func()

return render_func()

Module ckan.lib.base:95 in render_template << template = globsapp_globals?.genshi_loader.load(template_name,

cls=loader_class)

stream = template.generate(globs)

cls=loader_class)

Module genshi.template.loader:223 in load << loadfunc = directory(loadfunc)

try:

filepath, filename, fileobj, uptodate = loadfunc(filename)

except IOError:

continue

filepath, filename, fileobj, uptodate = loadfunc(filename)

Module genshi.template.loader:286 in _load_from_directory << def _load_from_directory(filename):

filepath = os.path.join(path, filename) fileobj = open(filepath, 'U') mtime = os.path.getmtime(filepath) def _uptodate():

fileobj = open(filepath, 'U')

UnicodeEncodeError?: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 73: ordinal not in range(128) CGI Variables CKAN_CURRENT_URL '/el/tag/jutatt%C3%A1sok' CKAN_LANG 'en' CKAN_LANG_IS_DEFAULT True CKAN_PAGE_CACHABLE True CONTENT_TYPE '; charset=utf-8' DOCUMENT_ROOT '/etc/apache2/htdocs' GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1' HTTP_ACCEPT '*/*' HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'gzip,deflate' HTTP_CONNECTION 'close' HTTP_FROM 'googlebot(at)googlebot.com' HTTP_HOST 'thedatahub.org' HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +​http://www.google.com/bot.html)' PATH_INFO '/el/tag/jutatt\xc3\xa1sok' PATH_TRANSLATED '/etc/ckan/datahub/apache.wsgi/el/tag/jutatt\xc3\xa1sok' REMOTE_ADDR '127.0.0.1' REMOTE_PORT '49520' REQUEST_METHOD 'GET' REQUEST_URI '/el/tag/jutatt%c3%a1sok' SCRIPT_FILENAME '/etc/ckan/datahub/apache.wsgi' SERVER_ADDR '127.0.0.1' SERVER_ADMIN '[no address given]' SERVER_NAME 'thedatahub.org' SERVER_PORT '80' SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.0' SERVER_SIGNATURE '<address>Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at thedatahub.org Port 80</address>\n' SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)' WSGI Variables application <beaker.middleware.CacheMiddleware? object at 0x7f5312a51650> beaker.cache <beaker.cache.CacheManager? object at 0x7f5312a51790> beaker.get_session <bound method SessionMiddleware?._get_session of <beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware? object at 0x7f5312a516d0>> beaker.session {'_accessed_time': 1345113298.778472, '_creation_time': 1345113298.778472} mod_wsgi.application_group 'ckan.net|' mod_wsgi.callable_object 'application' mod_wsgi.handler_script mod_wsgi.input_chunked '0' mod_wsgi.listener_host mod_wsgi.listener_port '8080' mod_wsgi.process_group 'datahub' mod_wsgi.request_handler 'wsgi-script' mod_wsgi.script_reloading '1' mod_wsgi.version (3, 3) paste.cookies (<SimpleCookie: >, ) paste.registry <paste.registry.Registry object at 0x7f5309add610> paste.throw_errors True pylons.action_method <bound method TemplateController?.view of <ckan.controllers.template.TemplateController? object at 0x7f52b0ea2d10>> pylons.controller <ckan.controllers.template.TemplateController? object at 0x7f52b0ea2d10> pylons.environ_config {'session': 'beaker.session', 'cache': 'beaker.cache'} pylons.pylons <pylons.util.PylonsContext? object at 0x7f52b0ea2b90> pylons.routes_dict {'url': u'el/tag/jutatt\xe1sok', 'action': u'view', 'controller': u'template'} repoze.who.logger <logging.Logger object at 0x7f53127b2b50> repoze.who.plugins {'openid': <OpenIdIdentificationPlugin? 139994769488336>, 'friendlyform': <FriendlyFormPlugin? 139994769488528>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:UsernamePasswordAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.UsernamePasswordAuthenticator? object at 0x7f5312d893d0>, 'auth_tkt': <AuthTktCookiePlugin? 139994771858704>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:OpenIDAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.OpenIDAuthenticator object at 0x7f5312d89350>} routes.route <routes.route.Route object at 0x7f531296ea10> routes.url <routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f5309add810> webob._parsed_query_vars (GET([]), ) webob.adhoc_attrs {'language': 'en-us'} wsgi process 'Multi process AND threads (?)' wsgi.file_wrapper <built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x7f52d4004990> wsgi.version (1, 1) wsgiorg.routing_args (<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f5309add810>, {'url': u'el/tag/jutatt\xe1sok', 'action': u'view', 'controller': u'template'})

From: <thedatahub.org@…> Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:34 AM Subject: WebApp? Error: <class 'ckan.lib.search.common.SearchError?'>: SOLR returned an error running query: {'sort': 'metadata_modified desc', 'fq': u'groups:"welcome" capacity:"public" +site_id:"www.ckan.net" +state:active', 'facet.mincount': 1, 'rows': 21, 'facet.limit': '50', 'facet': 'true', 'q': '*:*', 'start': -20, 'wt': 'json', 'fl': 'id data_dict'} Error: "'start' parameter cannot be negative" To: ckan-sysadmin@…, kindly@…

URL: ​http://thedatahub.org/feeds/group/welcome.atom?page=0 Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in call << traceback_supplement = Supplement, self, environ

sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker?(start_response) app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker) return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)

except:

app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)

Module beaker.middleware:73 in call << self.cache_manager)

environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager return self.app(environ, start_response)

return self.app(environ, start_response)

Module beaker.middleware:155 in call << headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))

return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)

return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)

def _get_session(self):

return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)

Module routes.middleware:131 in call << r'\1', oldpath)

response = self.app(environ, start_response)

# Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already

response = self.app(environ, start_response)

Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in call <<

controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response) response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)

if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,

response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)

Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch << if log_debug:

log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")

return controller(environ, start_response)

def load_test_env(self, environ):

return controller(environ, start_response)

Module ckan.lib.base:239 in call << try:

res = WSGIController.call(self, environ, start_response)

finally:

model.Session.remove()

res = WSGIController.call(self, environ, start_response)

Module pylons.controllers.core:221 in call << return response(environ, self.start_response)

response = self._dispatch_call() if not start_response_called:

self.start_response = start_response

response = self._dispatch_call()

Module pylons.controllers.core:172 in _dispatch_call << req.environpylons.action_method? = func

response = self._inspect_call(func)

else:

if log_debug:

response = self._inspect_call(func)

Module pylons.controllers.core:107 in _inspect_call << func.name, args)

try:

result = self._perform_call(func, args)

except HTTPException, httpe:

if log_debug:

result = self._perform_call(func, args)

Module pylons.controllers.core:60 in _perform_call << """Hide the traceback for everything above this method"""

traceback_hide = 'before_and_this' return func(args)

def _inspect_call(self, func):

return func(args)

Module ckan.controllers.feed:180 in group << data_dictfq? = 'groups:"%s"' % id

item_count, results = _package_search(data_dict)

navigation_urls = self._navigation_urls(params,

item_count, results = _package_search(data_dict)

Module ckan.controllers.feed:57 in _package_search << # package_search action modifies the data_dict, so keep our copy intact.

query = get_action('package_search')(context, data_dict.copy())

return querycount?, queryresults?

query = get_action('package_search')(context, data_dict.copy())

Module ckan.logic.action.get:1130 in package_search << query = search.query_for(model.Package)

query.run(data_dict)

for package in query.results:

query.run(data_dict)

Module ckan.lib.search.query:350 in run << except SolrException?, e:

raise SearchError?('SOLR returned an error running query: %r Error: %r' %

(query, e.reason))

try:

data = json.loads(solr_response)

(query, e.reason))

SearchError?: SOLR returned an error running query: {'sort': 'metadata_modified desc', 'fq': u'groups:"welcome" capacity:"public" +site_id:"www.ckan.net" +state:active', 'facet.mincount': 1, 'rows': 21, 'facet.limit': '50', 'facet': 'true', 'q': '*:*', 'start': -20, 'wt': 'json', 'fl': 'id data_dict'} Error: "'start' parameter cannot be negative" CGI Variables CKAN_CURRENT_URL '/feeds/group/welcome.atom?page%3D0' CKAN_LANG 'ja' CONTENT_TYPE '; charset=utf-8' DOCUMENT_ROOT '/etc/apache2/htdocs' GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1' HTTP_ACCEPT '*/*' HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'gzip,deflate' HTTP_CONNECTION 'close' HTTP_FROM 'googlebot(at)googlebot.com' HTTP_HOST 'thedatahub.org' HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +​http://www.google.com/bot.html)' PATH_INFO '/feeds/group/welcome.atom' PATH_TRANSLATED '/etc/ckan/datahub/apache.wsgi/ja/feeds/group/welcome.atom' QUERY_STRING 'page=0' REMOTE_ADDR '127.0.0.1' REMOTE_PORT '33139' REQUEST_METHOD 'GET' REQUEST_URI '/ja/feeds/group/welcome.atom?page=0' SCRIPT_FILENAME '/etc/ckan/datahub/apache.wsgi' SERVER_ADDR '127.0.0.1' SERVER_ADMIN '[no address given]' SERVER_NAME 'thedatahub.org' SERVER_PORT '80' SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.0' SERVER_SIGNATURE '<address>Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at thedatahub.org Port 80</address>\n' SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)' WSGI Variables application <beaker.middleware.CacheMiddleware? object at 0x7f5312a51650> beaker.cache <beaker.cache.CacheManager? object at 0x7f5312a51790> beaker.get_session <bound method SessionMiddleware?._get_session of <beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware? object at 0x7f5312a516d0>> beaker.session {'_accessed_time': 1345016040.884951, '_creation_time': 1345016040.884951} mod_wsgi.application_group 'ckan.net|' mod_wsgi.callable_object 'application' mod_wsgi.handler_script mod_wsgi.input_chunked '0' mod_wsgi.listener_host mod_wsgi.listener_port '8080' mod_wsgi.process_group 'datahub' mod_wsgi.request_handler 'wsgi-script' mod_wsgi.script_reloading '1' mod_wsgi.version (3, 3) paste.cookies (<SimpleCookie: >, ) paste.parsed_dict_querystring (MultiDict?([('page', '0')]), 'page=0') paste.parsed_querystring ([('page', '0')], 'page=0') paste.registry <paste.registry.Registry object at 0x7f5302eef7d0> paste.throw_errors True pylons.action_method <bound method FeedController?.group of <ckan.controllers.feed.FeedController? object at 0x7f52f0341750>> pylons.controller <ckan.controllers.feed.FeedController? object at 0x7f52f0341750> pylons.environ_config {'session': 'beaker.session', 'cache': 'beaker.cache'} pylons.pylons <pylons.util.PylonsContext? object at 0x7f52f0341450> pylons.routes_dict {'action': u'group', 'controller': u'feed', 'id': u'welcome'} repoze.who.logger <logging.Logger object at 0x7f53127b2b50> repoze.who.plugins {'openid': <OpenIdIdentificationPlugin? 139994769488336>, 'friendlyform': <FriendlyFormPlugin? 139994769488528>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:UsernamePasswordAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.UsernamePasswordAuthenticator? object at 0x7f5312d893d0>, 'auth_tkt': <AuthTktCookiePlugin? 139994771858704>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:OpenIDAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.OpenIDAuthenticator object at 0x7f5312d89350>} routes.route <routes.route.Route object at 0x7f5312961e90> routes.url <routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f52f0341210> webob._parsed_query_vars (GET([('page', '0')]), 'page=0') webob.adhoc_attrs {'language': 'en-us'} wsgi process 'Multi process AND threads (?)' wsgi.file_wrapper <built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x7f52ed4873f0> wsgi.version (1, 1) wsgiorg.routing_args (<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f52f0341210>, {'action': u'group', 'controller': u'feed', 'id': u'welcome'})

Set a dataset's license to 'Other (Not Open)', the dataset will have an Open Data icon next to it

need to make sure these update everywhere when done

The Package model should have a boolean field added to it describing its visibility beyond that supplied via auth.

The related permission for viewing packages where public is set to False would be package.view (show, whatever), and *never* visible for unauthenticated users.

I think the architecture on the search page is a bit odd. Not sure I like that there is a doubling up of the search box (e.g. one in the header and one in the body of the search results page)

Needs some thought

The user management in organizations ( ​http://localhost:5000/organization/users/NAME ) should autocomplete names in the dropdown box so that only valid usernames are added to the table.

Use an IGroupForm plugin to add a custom metadata field to groups using convert_to_extras() and convert_from_extras(), when calling group show the value comes back quoted, e.g. '"my_value"'

Should add tests to example_igroupform and others that setting and getting the custom fields works through the action API.

GroupController?'s history() method doesn't pass 'extras_as_string': True in the context when it calls group_show. This means that if you have an IGroupForm plugin that is adding a custom metadata field and using convert_to/from_extras() then a field value of 'foo' will be returned as '"foo"'

Other GroupController? and PackageController? methods do pass 'extras_as_string'

Add the views and functionality of following users and groups into 2.0

The pdf preview does not load in IE 9.

If you go to: /{any template dir} for example /home or /related, a Server errror occurs.

IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: u'/../venv/src/ckan/ckan/templates/home'

This is happening whenever people try to run paster commands. polib should only be needed for the check-po-files command don't import otherwise.

We want a "bubble" with a number in it to appear in the top-right of the site next to your user name when you're logged in, telling you how many new activity stream items you have in your dashboard activity stream.

There's a github issue for this here:

​https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-pdeu/issues/11

On the package controller the package_type is not passed to the lookup function, so the setup_template_variables defined on the extensions is never called

Have a news section (suggest as a sidebar item).

News section will link to latest 3/4 blog posts on CKAN from blog.okfn.org.

Details:

• Suggest pulling via rss or similar.
• Will want to cache this ...

Cost: 4h?

Have a simpler list of exciting data, as opposed to the big revision list.

For example:

Hot data
===========

New packages: package1, package2, package3
Updated resources: package1, package2, package3
Popular packages: 

The JavaScript? email encryption used is not very reassuring. Google's MailHide? is a much better solution that is easily implemented.

​http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

Check on the Mailhide API where there are even some Python libraries already built.

I suggest we produce a quick Markdown cheat-sheet page, showing the key runes: e.g. create a title and quote some text. This page can link to the full Markdown docs for advanced users.

A user going to the Markdown docs that we link will have to read a couple of pages of the raison-d'etre of Markdown before he gets to the syntax. And it's not very easy to read, and being white on black it looks like proper geek stuff.

Rationale

The package edit form is restricted to three extra fields. To enter more than three fields, one has to save the package and hit edit again (or hit preview).

Implementation

A mechanism similar to the one for resources (where you can add lines as you go) would solve this. So, have a button that adds more extra field rows via JS. (Extra fields don't need up/down buttons that the Resource table has)

Nice to have: a blank field is added when you tab from the last filled-in field in the table.

Thread: ​http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-November/000718.html

Scenario 1

1. User installs Refine and CKAN extension for refine
2. On booting refine and asked to load data they can choose from any data package on CKAN.net (or any other CKAN instance)
3. They edit the dataset on Refine
4. On save (or perhaps as a separate option) they are prompted as to whether they wish to sync the dataset back to CKAN (either as a new package or as a new resource on the existing package)

NB: for the dataset sync back some form of "CKAN" storage would be required (we already have storage.ckan.net running but a closer integration would be required)

Scenario 2

1. User visits a package on CKAN.net (or another CKAN instance)
2. There is a button on the page "View and edit this dataset in Google Refine"
3. Click button -- ask them if they have Google refine installed
   • Yes: instructions for loading dataset into refine
   • No: load dataset in hosted version of google refine (we could run this)
4. User edits dataset and hits save. As in previous scenario they are prompted to sync the dataset.

The search box at the top-right of CKAN's page doesn't have a 'go' button. I feel that a larger percentage of users expect a 'go' or 'search' button on the right-hand side of the box to press to start searching. Techies tend to know the keyboard shortcut of pressing 'carriage-return' but it might be better to follow standard practise on this.

Examples with 'search' button: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google, Amazon, trac Examples without: ?

• Forgot password (email a new password)
• Confirm email
• Do not show register page if you are logged in (redirect to home page)
• ticket:1010 - listing of users.
  • Do not use /user for general user account home page (either user normal user page /user/{id} or /user/myaccount)

Many users of CKAN want to have their own instance without much effort. Setting these up in separate places is a maintenance nightmare, we should much rather have some tenant separation in core CKAN. Some ideas:

• introduce model.Site and c.site
  • site has: custom CSS, extra_template_path, title, languages list, package_form, group_form (all configured via web UI)
• Subdomain detector to activate sites.
• use site in Authorizer instead of System, have a NullSite? for global things
• allow cross-site search
• packages are in a list of sites, m:n rather than 1:n
  • list of sites is string-based, can contain sites not in site table to express harvested external material which is not editable locally.

Tags could/should have an Atom feed. This would mean that every edit to relevant packages could be easily monitored. See [1].

[1] ​http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-May/001162.html